‘Hope is to identify high-performance Indigenous athletes’: National basketball camp tips off at Seven Chiefs Sportsplex

Michael Linklater, who is playing in the FIBA 3x3 World Tour Final in Beijing later this week, stands for a photograph at a outdoor basketball court near his home in Saskatoon,Tuesday,October 24,2017. Linklater has been the top-ranked 3-on-3 player in Canada for several years, and 3-on-3 will be on the program for the Tokyo Olympics. He's also First Nations, and has his own program that takes basketball into Indigenous communities.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards

A collaboration between Canada Basketball and the Aboriginal Sport Circle is bringing together some of the best Indigenous teenage players from across the country to Seven Chiefs Sportsplex on Tsuut’ina First Nation.

Michael Linklater, one of the inaugural National Indigenous Basketball Camp co-founders, sits down with sports anchor Sandra Prusina to share more about the importance of this weekend and what it means for the future of Indigenous basketball.

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